concept: Associate Prof. Suse Weber
locations: FeliX Art&Eco Museum, Verbeke Foundation, Base-Alpha Gallery
date: 12 - 17 May 2025
formats: excursion, work stop, discussion, Overnight stay on-site
participants:
Oğul Arda Biçer, Zeynep Bodur, Raisa Bosich, Febe Corba, Carolina Díaz, Dania González Sanabria, Negar Kablou, Giuliana Marmo, Ameer Masoud, Stefan Ralevic, Erphaneh Sadeghzadeh, Emily Thomas
short description:
In conversation with director Sergio Servellón and coordinator Rik Rommens from the Felix Art&Eco Museum, the focus is on the development of participatory and possible future-orientated formats for a new approach to museum accessibility. // The collector Geert Verbeke runs his Verbeke Foundation with solar energy in order to be 100 per cent ecologically sustainable. It now houses numerous works of art for public spaces that were saved from destruction and are now reinstalled and accessible. Many years ago, he began collecting works that deal in particular with the crossover between art, ecology and science. // The gallery owner and initiator of Art Antwerp, Bart Vanderbiesen, explains his career as a gallery owner, restorer and organiser of projects in public spaces in the Antwerp region.
During the trip, the students will make field notes in the form of collages, which will be permanently displayed as editions in the Felix Art&Eco Museum and Verbeke Foundation's collage collection.
We would like to express our sincere thanks for their support and hospitality to:
Director Sergio Servellón, coordinator Rik Rommens and all the staff of the FeliX Art&Eco Museum, Geert Verbeke and Carla Verbeke-Lens and all the staff and volunteers of the Verbeke Foundation, Bart Vanderbiesen of the Base-Alpha Gallery and Bauhaus University Weimar
photos 2025: Giuliana Marmo, Rik Rommens
Images: Selection of collages
Project module by Associate Prof. Suse Weber (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar / Faculty of Art and Design / Public Art and New Artistic Strategies), SoSe2025: KEEPING permeable + MAKING permeable – Strategies for public spaces, Sequence 2: Field trip to new contemporary models and exchange on transfer strategies of institutions